Henry Baltazar is research director of the 451 Research Storage channel within S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a focus on data storage. In his current role, Henry analyzes the market trends around environmental, social and governance (ESG) storage challenges, infrastructure modernization and resiliency. He publishes reports on trends in data storage, disaster recovery and hybrid cloud. He is often cited as a subject expert by publications such as MIT Technology Review, Forbes and TechTarget. Henry arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, where he began working as an analyst in August 2006. After spending three years running the storage research practice at Forrester, he returned to 451 Research in 2015 to fill the research director role and lead the storage practice. Henry graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences.
While environment, social and governance issues have become less impactful over the last two years as it relates to storage procurement decisions, most organizations are still concerned with the power and rack space consumption and CO₂ emissions of their storage assets, as well as other requirements for ethical hardware retirement and longer life spans for storage systems.
Cloud platform evolution, IT modernization and AI adoption will be overarching market drivers in 2025, fueling other trends in cloud infrastructure and services and cloud-native technologies in the coming year. The cloud sector continues to transform as hyperscalers, managed service providers, global systems integrators, hardware vendors and independent software vendors advance overlapping visions for IT infrastructure and application modernization enabled by automation and powered by the (disruptive) promise of generative AI.
The data protection specialist continues to expand into security and other markets to boost its value proposition. In addition to announcing a secondary offering, Veeam recently shared its goal of reaching $5 billion in sales and discussed how its new strategy will drive its business going forward.
The influence of ESG principles has become less impactful over the last two years when it comes to storage procurement decisions. That said, most organizations are still concerned with the power and rack space consumption and CO2 emissions of their storage assets, in addition to other requirements for ethical hardware retirement and longer lifespans for storage systems.
Many key technological trends will shape enterprise IT in 2025, including the integration of generative AI into observability, open-source software and intelligent automation platforms to enhance functionality and efficiency. The rising need for storage optimization is driven by increasing data volumes and costs, which in turn drives the adoption of advanced tooling such as intelligent data tiering and data tagging. Adoption of quantum computing is also on the rise, fueled by hardware advancements, high-profile enterprise use cases and global initiatives that promote quantum technologies.
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